Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 8, 1908

File No. 14911/7.

The Chinese Minister to the Secretary of State.

Imperial Chinese Legation,
Washington, November 16, 1908.

No. 14.]

Sir: It is with very great sorrow that I have further to announce to you the demise of Her Imperial Majesty the Empress Dowager, which occurred in Peking at 2 o’clock yesterday afternoon (November 14).

Accept, etc.,

Wu Ting Fang.